Re: [Emc-users] Looking fro some input from the community

[Joe H. <jo...@th...>]

> 
> I bought some parport cards from Amazon and eBay a while ago to do
> something of a survey along these lines.
> One turned out to be a SCSI card :-)
> One turned out to need a driver download every restart (without which
> it had an uncommitted generic IO chip. Which might potentially be a
> really useful thing with a dedicated LinuxCNC driver
> One turned out to be fine for P-port use but not support EPP.
> And one (OxSemi chip) worked fine in all regards.
> 
> I will try to run through them again and get the data you are wanting.
> 
> What sets the base address of a card? Is it the card or the PC / BIOS?

Andy,

Thank you for helping me with this little side project.  I am looking forward to adding your findings to the list.

Joe